@fandomtrumpshate is open for bidding! Feel the rush of an auction, toss some money towards a non-profit and receive a fannish gift! And for the first time, I’m also offering something on the Bazaar!
Here’s the auction for digital goods
Here’s the Bazaar for physical crafts
This is a list of this years eligible non-profits
And here is my Crafts Stall if you’d like a handmade book by me
My stall and most of the Bazaar is still open till March 10th even if the auctions are closing today. Come and browse around if you haven't already. :D
And because I got the very valid question about closing time, I went down timezone rabbit holes, complete with self-doubt and syphilis and… I'll be closing right when Monday ends for me. 0:00 CET, Berlin Time. This should~ also be 8pm EDT.
Finally got round to look into how to blur stuff in DaVinci Resolve and now I can show off my Traveler's notebook. (I still can't bring myse
Finally filmed and edited the video for the Travelers Journal I did in January.
There's some things that make me want to do a second one but better. But after having finished this one, I also can't be bothered to go through the process again. 😅 And it's still cute and functional. I'll just keep using it and make notes of what could be improved.
@fandomtrumpshate is open for bidding! Feel the rush of an auction, toss some money towards a non-profit and receive a fannish gift! And for the first time, I’m also offering something on the Bazaar!
Here’s the auction for digital goods
Here’s the Bazaar for physical crafts
This is a list of this years eligible non-profits
And here is my Crafts Stall if you’d like a handmade book by me
My stall and most of the Bazaar is still open till March 10th even if the auctions are closing today. Come and browse around if you haven't already. :D
@fandomtrumpshate is open for bidding! Feel the rush of an auction, toss some money towards a non-profit and receive a fannish gift! And for the first time, I’m also offering something on the Bazaar!
Here’s the auction for digital goods
Here’s the Bazaar for physical crafts
This is a list of this years eligible non-profits
And here is my Crafts Stall if you’d like a handmade book by me
New achievement unlocked! I now have 50 public domain books/typesets available for FREE in my library! 🥳 Above is a collage of all 50 title pages.
What does this mean? It means that these classic books have been typeset (typographic, book design, layout work done), and are ready as pdfs that can be used to read, print out, book bind, or burn at your pleasure! (Just keep it to personal use only!)
The full list (with page sizes now noted) of all 50 books available can be found here on my tumblrary directory/masterlist (which will update as I add more), and below the break of this post!
Please please feel free to request access to my library (aka, yee good ol' googly drive). I usually respond within 24 hours, and they are indeed free! Just leave credit if you use, and consider liking/reblogging!
Also, if you find any errors in the files, let me know! I made these in Affinity, not with an AI program, and typos are natural spawns XD
From Frankenstein to Pride and Prejudice, to Sherlock Holmes to a dude that wakes up as a bug, I've been honored to be able to typeset these books and share them with all of you.
A part of me wants to ramble on about the behind the scenes and my continuing personal journey of amateur typesetting...but I think the most important thing I can say is simply thank you! to everyone that's stopped by! So thank you all! (And should I try for 100? 🤔 Hmmm...)
Warning! Wall of text below the break!
All 50 typesets available (some have alternate versions in library):
Persuasion by Jane Austen (Letter Folio)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (Letter Quarto)
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (Letter Folio)
The Merry Adventures of Robinhood by Howard Pyle (Illustrated) (Letter Folio)
Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie (Letter Folio)
Dracula by Bram Stoker (Letter Folio)
The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft (Letter Quarto)
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (Letter Folio)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated) (Letter Folio)
The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells (Letter Folio)
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Letter Folio)
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (Letter Folio)
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (Letter Folio)
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (Illustrated) (Letter Folio)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (Illustrated) (Letter Folio)
The Odyssey by Homer (Letter Folio)
Tales of Space and Time by H. G. Wells (Letter Folio)
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (Letter Folio)
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (Illustrated) (Letter Folio)
The Book of Dragons by E. Nesbit (Illustrated) (Letter Folio)
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare (Letter Folio)
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne (Illustrated) (Letter Folio)
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Letter Folio)
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne (Letter Folio)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (Illustrated) (Letter Folio)
Leave it to Psmith by P. G. Wodehouse (Letter Folio)
Lord Peter views the body by Dorothy L. Sayers (Letter Folio)
The Room in the Tower by E. F. Benson (Letter Folio)
Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse (Letter Folio)
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells (Letter Folio)
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (Letter Quarto)
Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie (Letter Folio)
Grimms' Fairy Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (Letter Folio)
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux (Letter Folio)
Andersen's Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen (Letter Folio)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving (Letter Quarto)
Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare (Letter Folio)
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated) (Letter Octavo)
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery (Letter Folio)
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne (Letter Folio)
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (Letter Folio)
Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo (Letter Folio)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (Letter Folio)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (Letter Folio)
The Blue Fairy Book (Font Sampler Edition) edited by Andrew Lang (Letter Folio)
A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Letter Folio)
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott (Illustrated) (Letter Folio)
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie (Letter Folio)
(many thanks @queercus-books for finding out what that shape is called XD)
Over a year ago I saw this particular kind of box on the bookbinders fair in Leiden (NL). After having been recently reminded of them, I decided to give it a go and try to reverse engineer them from the pictures I found here (check out her other boxes, they are gorgeous!).
After staring at the original boxes for a bit, it was obvious they were not covered on the inside after gathering them. The pattern was visible in one consecutive pattern. It told me that a) the board was laminate with the patterned paper while still flat and b) the box was made from one piece, not single pieces glued together. For that the corners and edges needed to be scratched, but not cut through.
What stumped me in the beginning was what angle to pick for the walls. Naturally the base of each triangle had to be as long as the sides of the squares it connected to, but a too pointy angle at the tip resulted in long boxes that looked rather twisted than having that bulbous look I was looking for.
The solution (after some more staring and a few more paper models) was 'right angles'!
Any square piece of board can be made into this box by marking out the center square and have the walls point away in right angles.
Next I cut away the parts that won't be needed (to make sure I don't cut one of the side walls off, I crossed them out). The net of polyhedrons for this box could look different than this and still give me this shape, but with the way the paper pattern is was not visibly interrupted I'm confident this is the net the Dutch bookbinder has used. (It also wastes the least material)
Now it was scratching the other lines just enough so they would bend nicely, but not get too weak to hold the structure and test assemble. Shallow cuts and test bending every now and then helps to get there (also a metal ruler to keep carving the same line)
Cutting the board half way through ended me up with those gaps though. I''m not sure how much they would show if I dressed them just like that, but I decided to not take the risk and reinforced them with a white paper just in case.
The white paper is really just a white strip of paper long enough to go all around the box and a bit wider than one of the triangles is high so I could have an overlap and reinforcement to the bottom too. Part of why I did this was also to see if covering the body would work as I thought it would. With the angled planes the strip of paper bends up and and down, but in the end it's still one straight strip of paper.
I let it dry a bit before adding another layer, this time with the patterned paper and turn in's on top and bottom. In hindsight I could have cut the turn ins to the inside at an wider angle to avoid them reaching onto the better visible part, but then. this is the first time I made this box so I take that as a lesson learned.
Now all it needs is a base and a lid and I'm done.
Update on fanbinding dissertation: binding the dissertation itself!
After many days and nights of writing and wrangling footnotes and proofreading (where I couldn't convince my laptop that yes, I meant textualisation, not sexualisation), 'twas time to bind the beasts! In three copies, no less! Which I approached with way too much confidence from my one fanbind experience, and came with many fun little surprises due to the format guidelines I had to follow 🤡
This is going to be a long one, so here's my happy unfocused mug to confirm that it all ends well:
First pickle: The typesetting. I absolutely loved typesetting fanfic, but the dissertation had to be A4 (way less fun, boo-hoo), one-sided, with every page numbered. Did you know that LibreOffice won't let you add blank pages and only number the non-blank ones, without skipping numbers? In order to print signatures I could fold into one-sided pages, only numbered on the right-hand pages, I ended up switching to landscape orientation and including the equivalent of a blank page in the left margin.
Second pickle: The imposing, which I couldn't figure out using the amazing bookbinder with my weird landscape 2-page layout. I finally gave in and rearranged all the pages manually, which looked like p. 1 on the recto / p. 10 on the verso, then p2/p9, p3/p8, p4/p7, p5/p8, p6/p7. And because there was no way I was paying print-in-colour prices for all of this, I further split the manually imposed pages into two files, one for the greyscale printer (cheaper) and one for the colour printer (highway robbery). Still came up to ~£70, just for printing.
Very glad I went in chunks of 10 for the signatures, it made both the math and the folding using sheets from two different piles much easier, highly recommend (if for some absurd reason you also want to bind one-sided numbered pages in folded signatures).
Third pickle: Linear time. Had planned on having so much time to print and bind this thing, but kept writing and rewriting and proofing and oops! It was due in less than 24 hours and it was still not out of the laptop. So.
22/09/24, 6pm: Got to the library, started printing.
6.45pm: Found another printer where all the paper was the same shade of white, started printing again 🤦♂️ (kept the the misprints to use as scrap paper when glueing)
7.30pm: Started folding the 150 sheets of paper (3 x 100-page dissertation, 2 pages per sheet). Went from the last episode of The Magnus Protocol, to an episode of Welcome to Night Vale, to deciding restart The Magnus Archive, which felt almost poetic.
9pm: Headed back home, trimmed the edges (with a borrowed guillotine), folded the endpapers, stabbed everything. Lack of pictures to be blamed on my inability to mess with linear time, and the eventual sleep deprivation.
10.30pm, I think? Started sewing the signatures together, again with Supernatural (which I started rewatching when I submitted my first dissertation assignment in mid-May, and finished 2 days after submitting the dissertation itself, again, such poetry).
2am, probably? Tipped the endpapers and glued cheesecloth over the spines. Somehow figured out where to set the three textblocks to dry (I don't have a press). Sadly gave up on sewing on (or glueing) headbands, because time.
3am-ish: Cut the missing cover pieces out of millboard (had already cut 4 of 6 covers, since I knew it had to be A4), measured the spines of the three textblocks and cut those as well.
???am: Did some math, because sure, that's the right time for that. Cut the bookcloth to size, glued the cover pieces on the bookcloth. Remarkably only messed up the measurements on one of them! That means one of the copies has a millimetre of millboard showing in the inside corners of the back cover, but not enough time/bookcloth/millboard to redo it, onward we go!
Way past dawn: Took a break for food while the covers somewhat dried. Cased the three textblocks in the three covers, with the endpapers bubbling, which took me by surprise since it was the same paper and same glue I had used for the fanbind without any problem. I'm now thinking that bigger book = more time needed to apply the glue = endpapers getting warped, but I was so exhausted by this point that who knows. Again, no time to redo it!
9.30am: Stacked the dissertations under the heavy reference books I used to write the dissertation. Toute est dans toute hein. Went to bed while they (mostly) dried.
2.30pm: Woken up by my neighbour's dj set. Eventually put all that hard work in a tote and walked to school to hand it in at 4.30pm.
Fourth and last pickle: The titling. Couldn't find paper long enough to do a half-dust jacket like I did last time. Had big cutout plans, ran out of time and couldn't finish testing those. Also had some thicker textured paper I thought of cutting and glueing to the cover as a title card, but it turned out too thin and was warping. Finally resigned myself to submitting it with a blank cover, but one of my teachers asked if I would mind adding the title on with metallic markers to make it easier to identify (one copy will eventually be on the shelf at the Institute), and I'm SO HAPPY with how it turned out. Metallic markers. Why didn't I think of that. (I did, however, think about dressing appropriately for the occasion.)
So, is it possible to print and bind 3 books in less than 24 hours? Yes! Am I glad I did it? Also yes, very satisfying, love being extra! Would I do it again? God no, I've been sleeping for two weeks and I still haven't recovered. Can't wait to start binding something else though, so I guess it wasn't that bad.
That's it! That's over! Aaaaaah! Now waiting for the grade and comments, and hopefully soon I'll be able to share the content as well.
I'll also try to post some more about the research/writing process itself, somewhere between the late nights reading international treaties on income tax and the early mornings spent figuring out how to apply for a phd next.
Thank you so much to everyone who followed along, this was way more fun than I ever could have hoped!
I've typeset and bound the Bifrost Incident by the Mechanisms. Courtesy of two fellow bookbinders I've got fancy corners and apple leather. And courtesy of Mum and her sewing machine, getting the leather and cloth together was easy (for me 🤭). I didn't quite think through when cutting the edges and so they're not really pointed. (Which is mostly hidden by the corrners now.)
I entertained various ideas for the cover. Would've liked to create a mock tape, complete with a ribbon acting as magnetic tape on the spine. But that was two narrow for me to really feel like doing. Another idea was creating a file, which we might see in the typeset as well.
In the end, I didn't have cloth or paper in a colour I would've like, so a vegan leather notebook it became.
Also, I've found two spellings for the narrator. Everyone seems to be using Lyfrassir, and only on the band's bandcamp I've found Lifrassir. Decided to go with the Lyf spelling, but as we see… the cover had different ideas, which I only noticed after reaching the first or second s…
I don't think the leather will like being bent and unbent a lot…
A little single signature bind for Herr von Ribbeck auf Ribbeck, complete with translation, I did for a meetup and book swap with other bookbinders. Did a little caterpillar stitch on the cover. :D
This is my contribution to the @renegadeguild LOVES FIC (WRITERS) 2024 event for this day.
I’ve bound Bitch God by Naxtique . A delicious twisted tale about Zagreus and his encounters with the Satyrs.
This event was the push I needed to get over being the socially awkward penguin and to reach out to an author for binding permissions. I needn’t be scared. Thankfully, the postal services played nice and didn’t loose the little book.
Throughout creating my copy, I took little update videos, if you’re interested. Beware, though, the camera is shaky AF… I hope you won’t get seasick.
This is my fanbind for the Fanfic Writers Appreciation Day organised by the Renegade Bookbinding Guild. I bound Bitch God by Naxtique, a Had
Attempted Ethiopian Binding today with some misprints.
I’m not sure if I ever use it for something, though. Doing those holes between two cardboards is a little tricky, and I might not want to risk it with proper materials.
Mishaps happened. I had to do completely new holes on the other side, because I’ve ripped open the board.
I do like the finished look, though. It would fit some fantasy stories set in old-ish times.
